Your In Perspective article on “adaptive testing” (“Adjusting to Test Takers,” Nov. 19, 2008) was of special interest to me, since work done in the 1970s in the Portland, Ore., public schools’ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Jersey's public school students will be taking a new, adaptive, standardized assessment next spring. The key word here is ...

New Jersey is moving its assessment system for elementary and high school students to so-called adaptive testing. An adaptive format will also be used to replace the high school proficiency exit exams ...

New Jersey's public school students will be taking a new, adaptive, standardized assessment next spring. The key word here is "adaptive," which refers to computerized tests in which each student sees ...